I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Money does not change people, people change.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

All of our problems start in our minds.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I hate to be smart.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.